Dr Jack Symes is a public philosopher at Durham University

His books include Philosophers on Consciousness: Talking about the Mind (2022), Philosophers on God: Talking about Existence (2024), Defeating the Evil-God Challenge: In Defence of God’s Goodness (2024), and Philosophers on How to Live: Talking about Morality (forthcoming).

Jack regularly appears on major public platforms, such as BBC Radio 4, The Joe Rogan Experience, Piers Morgan Uncensored, HowTheLightGetsIn, GB News, PoliticsJoe, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, The Spectator, and Glastonbury Festival. He is also the producer of The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast, one of the UK’s most popular higher education podcasts.

He was awarded the BBC New Generation Thinker Prize in 2024.